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Draft major projects list not good enough for Ontario, Ford says

Premier says he discussed the potential infrastructure projects with Prime Minister Carney
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to reporters as he leaves a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Patrick Doyle

Carney says he won’t judge top aide over ties to Big Tobacco

Trade

The fight to preserve North American trade is just beginning

After an onslaught of tariffs levied by the Trump administration, Canada is gearing up for renegotiations
Steel workers work at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ont. in March, 2025. Ottawa is focusing on securing relief for industries hit by sector-specific tariffs, including steel and aluminum, which currently face U.S. tariffs.

Carney unveils billions in aid to help tariff-hit sectors, delays EV mandate

Funicular crash

Quebec City couple killed in Lisbon funicular crash were on milestone birthday vacation

The two had worked at the province’s conservation centre restoring artifacts
Quebec City couple André Bergeron and Blandine Daux enjoying their trip to Portugal for his 70th birthday before they were killed in a funicular accident in Lisbon Wednesday.
Sports

Auger-Aliassime falls to Sinner in U.S. Open semi-final after thrilling Grand Slam run

The Canadian stole a set off the defending champion in a gutsy loss. Now, the top-ranked Italian is set to face rival and World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz in the men’s singles final on Sunday
Félix Auger-Aliassime fell to Jannik Sinner of Italy in a gutsy U.S. Open men's singles semi-final on Friday.

Gaby Dabrowski wins second U.S. Open title in women’s doubles

Climate

Darkened by ash from wildfires, glaciers in the Canadian Rockies are melting even faster

Ash on the surface of once-reflective glaciers accelerates the rapid melting of ice long after fires are extinguished
Dr. John Pomeroy, Director of the Global Water Futures Programme and Coldwater Laboratory in Canmore, walks across Peyto Glacier in Alberta on September 4, 2024.

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Trump signs order offering some tariff exemptions to countries with U.S. trade deals

U.S. President Donald Trump says exemptions could begin as soon as Monday for some countries who have struck trade deals, unlike Canada.

Royal Canadian Geographical Society acquires new globe highlighting Canada and ignoring Trump edicts

The new globe commissioned by Royal Canadian Geographical Society on display before the unveiling at the headquarter building in Ottawa, Ontario on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The new globe ignores President Donald Trump’s edicts and overtly differentiates Canada from the U.S. in imperial pink. (James Park for The Globe)

UK Deputy PM resigns, throwing Keir Starmer’s government into turmoil

Angela Rayner has been one of the governing Labour Party’s most popular figures.

TIFF schedule today: Sydney Sweeney’s Christy, Matthew McConaughey’s The Lost Bus and Cillian Murphy’s Steve to premiere

Pedestrians walk by a covered TIFF sign as preparations for the Toronto International Film Festival continue in Toronto on Thursday.

U.S. employers added just 22,000 jobs in August as labour market continues to cool

FILE - Commuters walk past the New York Stock Exchange, April 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown light rail project delayed again

Ontario's transit agency says the consortium building the delayed midtown Toronto light trail transit line intends to launch a legal challenge over the project. "Out of Service" signs are shown on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto on Friday, May 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

Judge proposes heated shelters at Alberta bars after two men died of hypothermia

Edmonton Law Courts are shown in Edmonton on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Brain chips from Musk’s Neuralink implanted in two Canadian men with spinal cord injuries

Dr. Andres Lozano, right, a neurosurgeon at University Health Network, and his surgical team at Toronto Western Hospital are shown in this handout image on Wednesday Aug. 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - UHN / Neuralink (Mandatory Credit)

AI company Anthropic to pay authors $1.5-billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material

Thriller novelist Andrea Bartz is photographed in her home, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025 (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
in depth

Canadian campuses are mostly female. What are men doing instead?

Weekend Reads

The U.S. is no longer a safe harbour for domestic violence refugees, but crossing into Canada is often impossible

A Colombian survivor is one of many paying the price for a flawed system
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Podcast

Should we worry about the gender gap at university?Podcast

Business and Finance

The federal government has asked the Court of Appeal of Ontario to dismiss or vary the damages in the case related to investors in now-defunct telecom Mobilicity, alleging a lower court's decision relied on almost 30 errors of law, principle and 'palpable and overriding errors of fact.'

Ottawa appeals ruling in Mobilicity telecom case that found it liable for hundreds of millions in investor losses

Ottawa aims to help beleaguered canola industry with moves to boost domestic biofuel production

Ottawa announced a new $370-million biofuel production subsidy and new domestic-content provisions in the federal Clean Electricity Regulations.

Hearing to approve sale of Hudson’s Bay charter to Weston family adjourned

The 1670 royal charter signed by King Charles II establishing Hudson's Bay on display at the Manitoba Museum in 2020.
financial facelift

Can Tom and Pat, both in their early 40s, retire by 50 and still spend $200,000 a year?

August 14, 2025. Shannon VanRaes/The Globe and Mail

Auto industry welcomes change to EV sales mandate

An electric vehicle is charged in Ottawa on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Opinion and analysis

Could a wildfire trigger the next market crash?

John Rapley
John Rapley

Canada’s electricity crisis: Why national interest demands a national grid

Bruce Lourie
Canada's fragmented electricity market is extremely unusual among developed nations.

China held a parade to send a message about its power. Message received

Tony Keller
Tony Keller

Canada lags allies in providing financial-crime guidance to banks, other businesses

Rita Trichur
Rita Trichur

How to keep your money safe from hackers

Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
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Chart to watch

Extraordinary factors drove this year’s gold rally. Now comes the boring part

Fed rate cuts and a weaker U.S. dollar could push the price of bullion even higher
David Berman

Alberta vows to implement new standards for releasing treated oil sands mine water

There are roughly 1.4 million cubic metres of fluid tailings and more than 390 million cubic metres of water in ponds in the oil sands region.

Pitching in: Brothers fund books for Nova Scotia children in honour of their mother

Kevin, Edward, Rita and Adrian Gillis during Christmas dinner on Dec 25, 2012, a few months before Rita died. She passed on March 15, 2013. The brothers are donating $250,000 to the Cape Breton Regional Library over 10 years in her honour.

The best fixed and variable mortgage rates for the week

A "For Sale" sign sits in front of a house, in Toronto, on April 20, 2010. Moves by Ottawa to tighten mortgage lending rules did little to cool the country's two hottest real estate markets as home sales in Toronto and Vancouver continued to charge ahead last month. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
etfs

Canadian ETFs: Single-stock funds on Canadian companies flood the market in August

An investor analyzes the ETF market traffic graph on a tablet.

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AP reporting raises questions about why and how Israel attacked a Gaza hospitalVideo2:29

Suspect among two dead in mass stabbing at First Nation reserve in ManitobaVideo1:27

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How Ryan Reynolds convinced Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd to appear in the John Candy docVideo3:37

Trending

Kennedy Jr. plans to link Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism, report says

What to watch this weekend: Task is a gangbusters crime drama on Crave, and The Unstoppable Jenny Garcia a worthy remake on Gem

Brain chips from Musk’s Neuralink implanted in two Canadian men with spinal cord injuries

Judge proposes heated shelters at Alberta bars after two men died of hypothermia

U.S.-based Indigenous group sues for right to shape how history is taught in B.C.

Richmond Hill home gets three offers, sells $58,000 under asking

Royal Canadian Geographical Society acquires new globe highlighting Canada and ignoring Trump edicts

Can Tom and Pat, both in their early 40s, retire by 50 and still spend $200,000 a year?

In case you missed it

At Yummy House in Toronto’s East End, back to school means back to business

Susan Duong serves students from Riverdale Collegiate that are grabbing lunch at Yummy House, on Sept 2, 2025. The small Chinese restaurant across the street from the school is a popular spot for cheap lunches and bubble teas. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)

Finnish conductor John Storgards appointed National Arts Centre Orchestra’s music director

NAC Principal Guest Conductor John StorgÂrds. Credit Freestyle_Photography

Quebec pulls funding for Northvolt battery megafactory

The entrance to Northvolt, the new EV battery plant being built by the Swedish manufacturer in Saint-Basile-le-Grand, east of Montreal, Que.,Thursday, May 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Corus halts production at animation studio Nelvana, says it will focus on managing existing properties

The Corus logo at Corus Quay in Toronto is shown on Friday, June 22, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin

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Canada

The Lethbridge Police Service headquarters is pictured in Lethbridge, Alta., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

12-year-old Alberta boy charged with attempted murder after stabbing of younger brother

Carney will introduce legislation next month to tighten bail system

Manitoba mass stabbing suspect was out on bail, ordered not to contact sister killed in attack

World

Russia's President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on Aug. 15. Putin said Friday that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine would be considered “legitimate targets.”

Foreign troops deployed to Ukraine would be legitimate targets, Putin says

Camera targeted by Israeli strike on Gaza hospital belonged to Reuters journalist, AP reporting shows

France faces political uncertainty ahead of vote of confidence

Politics

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney-General Pam Bondi announce a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Louisiana on Wednesday. A U.S. judge blocked a DHS plan to revoke legal protections for Venezuelan and Haitian migrants.

U.S. judge blocks plan to end legal protections for over a million Venezuelans and Haitians

Biden had surgery to remove cancer cells, spokesperson says

Politics Insider: Carney delays mandatory EV sales targets

Sports

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Blue Jays beat Yankees 7-1 to reopen a four-game AL East lead over New York

Alcaraz beats Djokovic at the U.S. Open semifinals, will face Sinner for 3rd consecutive Grand Slam final

Fifty years since its opening, Spruce Meadows ‘screams excellence in every way’

Style Advisor

Anna Wintour appears at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York on May 5, 2025, left, and Chloe Malle appears at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York on May 1, 2023. (Photos by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Anna Wintour names Candice Bergen’s daughter Chloe Malle as Vogue successor

What Montreal’s summer fashion festival says about its status as Canada’s fashion capital

These 10 fall fashion trends have staying power. Here’s what to look for

Health & Fitness

Terry Fox is shown in the documentary "Run Terry Run" in this undated handout image. Sean Menard's documentary "Run Terry Run" draws on 91 reels of restored and largely unseen footage of Terry Fox captured during his Marathon of Hope in 1980. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Sean Menard Productions (Mandatory credit)
cult of fitness

Why Terry Fox’s legacy endures, 45 years after his Marathon of Hope

ask a doctor

Feeling backed up? Four strategies to help with constipation

Dr. Carolyn Wong

Nutrition needs are different in cooler months – here’s how tech can help

Real Estate

Here are renderings for Anthem's SOCO Two building in Coquitlam, which is part of their Homeownership Accelerator program.

End-users, rather than investors, expected to drive Vancouver housing market higher

Kerry Gold
done deal

Calgary townhouse sells to buyer offering $20,888 over asking

done deal

Buyers’ patience pays off in pursuit of New Westminster penthouse loft

Drive

The party piece is what BMW calls panoramic iDrive, a 1.1-metre wide, five-centimetre tall display projected onto the base of the windshield.
car review

Inside the advanced new powertrain and technology on the iX3, which charts a new course for BMW

road sage

The strangest thing about an Ontario woman driving with a staircase on her car is how unremarkable it is

Andrew Clark
car review

The Lincoln Aviator is powerful, comfortable and good looking, but don’t bother with the costly options

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How a Quebec town fought to keep its ER open and welcomed foreign workers

Martine Riopel, cancer survivor and client of the Rivière Rouge emergency services and her lawyer Carl-Éric Therrien speak with the reporter and a former employee of the Rivière Rouge hospital on the 7th of May 2025. Story header: citizens of Rivière Rouge banded together to ensure that the governement did not shut down the emergency services at the Hospital in the small town of Rivière Rouge, Quebec.

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